Reviews

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

rosiebartle's review against another edition

5.0

Wow! What a beautiful collection of powerful short poems. The satire in poem ‘Acknowledgement of Cuntery’ was so engaging, mixed with the raw pain in many others. What a wonderful insight into First Nations perspective as she debunks childhood “Australian” stories, and depicts the racist undertones and themes. A fantastic debut and a must read! I listened to this as an Audiobook narrated by the author Evelyn Araluen, which was an amazing experience to listen to the passion in her writing.

the_literarylinguist's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

mothmans_mum's review

5.0

A beautiful and thought provoking series of poems and essays on being Indigenous, the recent Australian bushfires, COVID, Australiana amongst other topics.

jemmacm's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

happyhobbit1's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

kumquats87's review

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

alesia_mary's review

medium-paced

4.25

ellabooray's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Powerful, highly recommend this collection 

rachofwonder's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective

3.5

ruth_rb's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0